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Apple iPhone 17 Air Review: Ultra-thin elegance meets near-limit SAR—great iPhone, but don’t confuse compliance with safety

The iPhone 17 Air is a design flex: a 5.64 mm ultra-thin iPhone with a gorgeous 6.6-inch Super Retina XDR OLED and A19-class speed. But RF-conscious buyers should pause—its hotspot and simultaneous SAR readings sit essentially at the FCC’s 1.6 W/kg ceiling. It’s a strong phone that demands safer-use discipline.

iPhone 17 vs 17 Air vs 17 Pro vs 17 Pro Max (2025): which one actually fits your priorities?

Apple’s iPhone 17 lineup looks unified from the software side, but the hardware splits into clear personalities: the base iPhone 17 is the balanced pick, the 17 Pro models are the real upgrade for zoom and serious video workflows, the Pro Max is the big-screen “do everything” option, and the 17 Air is the thin,…

Associations between Individual and Geospatial Characteristics and Power of 4G Signals Received by Mobile Phones

This exposure assessment study analyzed smartphone-logged 4G LTE RSSI and GPS data from adults in France to identify determinants of downlink signal strength. RSSI varied with geospatial factors (distance to antennas, antenna density, urbanicity) and time of day, and was also influenced by technical smartphone…

The relationship between mobile phone location sensor data and depressive symptom severity.

This observational study examined whether passively collected smartphone GPS features relate to depressive symptom severity in 48 college students over 10 weeks. Several mobility features (including location variance, entropy, and circadian movement) were reported to correlate with PHQ-9 scores. Associations were…